840917 - The share link options are not correctly displayed on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Android Sync, defect)

Description

[Adrian Tamas (:AdrianT)]

Attachment: screenshot

Firefox Mobile 19 beta 6/ Nightly 21.0a1 2013-02-12
Samsung Galaxy Nexus
Android 4.1.1

Steps:
1. Load any page. For e.g. news.google.com
2. Open the Custom Menu and choose Share

Expected:
A pop-up is displayed with a list of options ordered one under the other

Actual:
The items are displayed in a grid on the Nexus. This is the case for all the share menus on the Nexus regardless if opened from the menu or from context menues.

This is not the case on the Asus Transformer TF101 running Android 4.0.3 or the Samsung Galaxy S2 running Android 4.0.3. This may be a JellyBean issue but we don't have any other JB devices to test on.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

My guess is that on Jellybean the particular Sync activity name (sendtab) is exposed maybe? It's picking up a branding string from somewhere

Comment 2

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

The grid layout is the newer Android way of showing the popup. Android controls the look of the UI, not Firefox. 

Is there any other bug here besides the way the UI looks? If not, we should close this bug.

Comment 3

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Yup, I get the grid on my S3 running 4.2.x.

It's a massive step back in usability, and Google seems to be minimizing the "recent share" picker, too.

The browser names you can see are Android trying to disambiguate the three different "Firefox Sync" versions you have installed on your system. It seems like the best approach to me.